Miguel Nunez de Prado

Miguel Nunez de Prado (1882-24 July 1936) was the Minister of the Air Force of the Second Spanish Republic. He was killed by the rebels at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Biography
Miguel Nunez de Prado was born in 1882 in Cordoba, Spain. He served in the infantry in Melilla during the Rif War, and in 1923 he joined the Spanish Air Force and later the Republican Antifascist Militia Union. In 1933, Nunez de Prado rose to Major-General and became Director-General of the Police in February 1936, making sure to remove possible conspirators from the air force; his actions led to the Spanish Air Force remaining loyal to Republican Spain. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, he headed to Zaragoza to convince General Miguel Cabanellas to join the Republican cause, but Cabanellas joined Nationalist Spain and arrested Nunez de Prado, who was executed by firing squad by the Nationalists on 24 July 1936.